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adjective

Nameless adj.

Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.

Undistinguished; not noted or famous. "A nameless dwelling and an unknown name."

Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless pens."

Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. "But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot." "I have a nameless horror of the man."

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Etymology of 'Nameless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... fidelity, judgment, and freedom enough for that purpose. It would be a nameless office, otherwise it would lose its grace and its effect; and 'tis a part that is not indifferently fit for all men; for truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and indiscriminately; its use, noble as it is, has its circumspections and limits. It often falls ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... rose-scented tranquility of a super-six in passage. The streets are wide and clean, the buildings comfortable, the lawns and shade trees attractive. Centralia is somewhat of a coquette but she is as sinister and cowardly as she is pretty. There is a shudder lurking in every corner and a nameless fear sucks the sweetness out of every breeze. Song birds warble at the outskirts of the town but one is always haunted by the cries of the human beings who have been tortured and killed within ...

— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin

... Rhine, I am never more than twenty years old!" says the Countess Ida Hahn Hahn, in her Erinnerungen. "There only do I feel myself quite at home. Whether arriving from the Baltic or the Guadalquivir, I have always a recurrence of the same nameless home-feeling, which renders me at once happy and tranquil. O, the Rhine! the Rhine! What are other rivers—your Seine, and Garonne, and Tagus—compared with him? But small and secondary streams ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

... remorse haunted him. It was only curosity, and, at one thought, a nameless horror! ... Not at the thought of murder ... there he had no compunction, but at that of the terrible deed which from instinct of self-protection had perforce ...

— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy

... their fortunes but of themselves, but still always in that high-comedy tone with the studied gesture and the cadenced intonation. She did not know whether they deserved her pity, those two whom he pretended to have loved, but she was ready to pity them, nameless as they were. The one was dead, the other, at least, had been wise enough to forget him ...

— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford

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